Turn off geoprocessing history

DeveloperAnnie

Arcpy is writing all my geoprocessing history to the metadata of a file geodatabase I am trying to delete. 

The script to delete the file is on another server. 

However, the following code does not work:

arcpy.env.workspace = dataloc 
if arcpy.GetLogHistory():
   arcpy.SetLogHistory(False)

JoeBorgione

Are you trying to delete the history or just not create any new history as you run your scripts?  What version of ArcGIS/ArcPy are you using? 

There is a long,drawn out process described here that deletes existing geoprocessing history.  I've modified the code a bit and we run it the first of every month against all of our enterprise gdb's.  It also works with fgdb's.

FYI- none of the metadata related tools are available in the ArcGIS Pro environment (Yet).

In all of our scheduled task python scripts, right after we import arcpy, we use arcpy.SetLogHistory(False) so we aren't logging what we are doing.